Last Words: Dr. Petra Gospodnetic, Medabsy

How did the collaboration with Medabsy come about?

System integrators often struggle to select the right components for visual inspection and to clearly define visibility-or even what qualifies as a defect. At Fraunhofer ITWM, we took on this challenge within the Virtual Inspection Planning topic. After we have validated our methods on synthetic data generation, it was clear that the best way to reach the market in a meaningful way was to enable the developed technology to exit Fraunhofer in form of a spin-off. However, to create something like that, one must have a perfect team of co-founders, who understand the problem, share the vision and are dedicated to put in the necessary effort. This is where Medabsy came into play – a startup who make inspection planning service easily available on the market. We have exchanged ideas on several occasions and noticed that our visions align perfectly. Afterwards we have started a more intense collaboration and have joined the Fraunhofer accelerator Ahead programme together.

What exactly are your goals?

In Medabsy we are building a simulation software which will become the backbone of machine vision system development. Our goal is to make development of machine vision systems streamlined and more robust by virtualising the complete design process, simulating the outcomes and enabling generation of synthetic training datasets. What does this mean? It means that you can evaluate the project feasibility shortly after the customer has presented you with the task, you can choose the appropriate components without waiting for them to be delivered on trial basis, you can figure out what can be seen and what not by simulating defects and edge cases based on customer specification, and finally, you can generate perfectly annotated training datasets of arbitrary size for your AI-based defect detection pipeline.

How quickly can you implement customer requests?

Medabsy is an online platform which can be used with a license. We have a light version license which offers limited inspection design features and a Pro license where advanced simulation features are also available. Given that we are currently in process of extending the platform with Fraunhofer ITWM technology, we work in close collaboration with our Pro-license customers to make sure that the platform offers what they need.

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